Poetry Three big ideas

Question 1

Rain +

Answer 1

1) The isolating loneliness of the first few lines
2) The questioning despair and dread of the central section
3) The apparent equivalence of love and death in the final lines

Question 2

Ozymandias +

Answer 2

1) Arrogant and self-important expression of statue
2) Pathetic and powerless appearance of statue today
3) Now this mighty king is nothing, shows transience of human nature

Question 3

Request to a Year

Answer 3

1) Atmosphere of respect to GGG
2) Ruthless nonchalance of the GGG in not caring
3) All the talk of being against the stereotypical women and her daughter following this

Question 4

On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book -

Answer 4

1) The uncertainty off when death will occur and the destabilising nature of that
2) The innocence of the fly and therefore deaths ruthlessness
3) Collective pronouns and how death is inescapable and universal

Question 5

The City Planners +

Answer 5

1) The sanitised modernity of the world that is described
2) The sense of wildness/messiness inevitably breaking through
3) The description of the planners as uncaring/ruthless

Question 6

The Planners +

Answer 6

1) The sense of perfection and correction
2) The forceful and military like nature of planning and building
3) The removal/wiping clean of the past

Question 7

He never expected much

Answer 7

1) The admittance that life has turned out just the way he expected it
2) The power and influence the world has on everyone
3) The regret at following the worlds advice

Question 8

Night Sweat

Answer 8

1) The uncontrolled sense of build up in first few stanzas
2) The grief surrounding his situation and his younger self
3) The possibility of hope/reconciliation in the form of a wife

Question 9

Funeral Blues

Answer 9

1) The scale of his grief
2) The personal intimacy and intensity of his mourning in tension with scale and universality
3) The sense of finality due to change in dynamic